Written during a relaxed morning in Siem Reap Cambodia
My neighbour Aussie Steve needed a hip replacement and after considering a trip to China in order to sample their state of the art hospitals, he eventually decided to have it done in the local hospital here in Siem Reap. I was asked to go along to provide pack-horse duty and moral support.
Here’s something you should know if you ever need a hospital visit here: bring all your own shit with you. Bring, water, bring a pillow, bring a blanket, and bring plenty of money for food because you’ll need to pay someone to get it for you. They give you a bed but everything else is on you. Most of the locals in the hospital were not there for treatment, they were there to care for their loved ones.
A close friend who I met in Chiang Mai got in touch to ask if I would mind recording some audio for the video he was making, of course I said yes, and it turned out great. I have done voiceovers in the past but this project was the longest and most well produced of them all. Watching the finished video and hearing my own voice is a strange experience, but most enjoyable.
Went to log in one morning and my password failed to work. I typed it super slowly to make sure it got it right, but it still failed. Then I notice the additional asterisk characters appearing and figure out that it’s the keyboard on my Thinkpad T480 that’s gone up the swanny.
Oh wait, turns out the keyboard is fine and actually it’s a swollen battery that’s pushing against the keyboard, no probs just take the battery out continue working on the second battery (the T480 has 2 batteries; an internal one, and a removable one). But now the remaining battery won’t charge. Is it a Linux problem? Doesn’t feel like it so I take a look at the second battery and discover that one is also toast.
Two dead batteries in one morning. This means I’m without a machine and I do not like being without a machine. A couple of days running around town lead me to finding a new battery, and then a generous friend gifting me his old laptop means that I’m nearly back on track. Note to self: Be better prepared for hardware failure.